- Poonah painting
- Poonah painting Poo"nah paint`ing [From Poona, in Bombay
Province, India.]
A style of painting, popular in England in the 19th century,
in which a thick opaque color is applied without background
and with scarcely any shading, to thin paper, producing
flowers, birds, etc., in imitation of Oriental work.
Note: Hence:
{Poonah brush},
{paper},
{painter}, etc. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.